Friday, May 16th (4-6pm) & Saturday May 17 (9 - noon)
Where: Maine East High School (Dee & Dempster parking lot)
What: Over 50 species of native wildflowers, grasses, and sedges!
  • $4 each - individual 2.5" x 3.5" deep pots (plants grown by Agrecol)
  • Native plant gardeners available for design consult at pickup
  • Proceeds to benefit Maine East High School Ecology Club (outdoor nature spaces) & Go Green Park Ridge​
  • ​Tour the Maine East Oak Savanna!
  • Free compost will be available c/o Park Ridge Park District (we will have some free 5-gallon buckets or byo)
Plant List - full or part sun:  (Click each to see images)
Shorter (1-2 ft)
​Prairie Smoke (Spring blooming) 
​​Wild Petunia (June - Aug) 
Nodding Pink Onion (July - Aug) 
​Butterfly Milkweed (June - Aug) 
Whorled Milkweed (July - Sept)
Purple Prairie Clover (July - Sep., protect from bunnies!)
​White Prairie Clover (July - Sep, protect from bunnies!) 
​Hoary Vervain (Sept)
Downy Woodmint (May - Aug)
Wild Strawberry (April-Jun)
Bradbury's Monarda (Jun-July)
​Golden Alexander (April - June)

Med Height (3-4 ft)
​Turtlehead (July - Sept, likes wet soil)
Leadplant (July- Aug)
​​Showy Black-eyed Susan (Aug - Sep) ​ 
Ohio Spiderwort (May - July) 
​Wild Bergamot (July - Sep) ​
Smooth Penstemon (June - July) 
​​Rattlesnake Master (July - Sep) ​
​Great Blue Lobelia (July - Oct; likes wet soil) 
Cardinal Flower (July - Sept; likes wet soil)
​Royal Catchfly (June - Aug) 
Rough Blazing Star (July - Sep) 
​Sneezeweed (Aug - Oct, likes wet soil) 
Purple Coneflower (July - Sep) 
Golden Alexander (May-June)
Wild Quinine (June-September)
Zigzag Goldenrod (July-October)
Marsh (Red) Milkweed (Jun-Aug, likes wet soil)
​Blue Wild Indigo (May-Jun)​
Alumroot (Jun)
Wild Lupine (May-July)

​Taller (5+ ft)
​New England Aster (Aug - Oct) 
Culver's Root​
Marsh Blazing Star (July - Sep, likes wet soil)
Showy Goldenrod (Sept - Nov)
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed (July-Sept)
Plant List - can take full shade​: (Click each to see images) 
Jacob's Ladder (Spring)
Wild Columbine (April - June) ​​
​Wild Geranium (April - July) 
Elm-leaved Goldenrod (Aug, Sept)
Zigzag Goldenrod (Aug - Oct)
Big Leaved Aster (July- Oct)​
Sedges/Grasses:
Prairie Dropseed
Brown Fox Sedge
Common Burr Sedge
Bottlebrush Grass
Little Bluestem
​Switchgrass 
Indiangrass

Shrubs: 
Indigo Bush (Amorphus fructicosa) - 3 gallon 
Lead Plant (Amorphus canascens) - 3 gallon
Pagoda Dogwood (Cornus alternafolia) - 5 gallon
Winterberry (Llex verticillata) - 3 gallon
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) - 3 gallon
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) - 3 gallon
Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) - 5 gallon
Meadowsweet (Spirea tomentosa) - 5 gallon
Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea) - 5 gallon
Hardhack/Steeplebush (Spirea tomentosa) - 3 gallon
New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus) - 2.5 inch pot

Why incorporate natives?
"The choices we make as gardeners can profoundly impact the diversity of life in our yards, towns, and on our planet...  Everyone can welcome more wildlife into their yards just by planting a few native plants."  Doug Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home
Listen to an April 5th podcast interview Professor Tallamy here!




​The first part of this video provides fascinating information about insect specialists and their importance in our society.
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Are you interested in knowing where to find these native flowers in bloom in the wild?  Photographer Mike McDonald and his scouts around Chicago can guide you at ChicagoNatureNOW!  
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